https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/page/214/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/the-return-of-seth-speaks-the-podcast-r6316/It's been almost four years since I last did my own podcast. For a variety of reasons, I stopped at that time. Twins Daily was taking off. Listeners were low. We were contemplating Vikings and Wild and Wolves websites. Life. But the reality is that I really liked my podcast. It was something that...6316Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:18:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/a-look-back-2011-twins-minor-league-hitter-of-the-year-brian-dozier-r6310/It's been a very slow offseason all around baseball, so I thought it would be fun to take a look back. For the 2012 Minnesota Twins Prospect Handbook, I wrote a story on the 2011 Twins Minor League Hitter of the Year, Brian Dozier. It was a fun story, going back to his roots in Mississippi, his co...6310Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:59:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/three-prospects-to-watch-in-2018-r6308/If you haven’t heard yet, the 2018 version of the Minnesota Twins Prospect Handbook is now available. It’s hard not to get overwhelmed when we are compiling over 160 profiles on almost every player in the Twins farms system. That being said, it fun to pick out players to focus on for the up-coming...6308Thu, 04 Jan 2018 02:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/importance-of-the-2017-draft-r6294/When a team has the number one overall pick, it’s imperative to make an organizational shifting selection. This might seem like an obvious statement but teams are rarely in position to select at the top of the draft. If the front office makes a wrong choice at the top, there can be reverberating e...6294Thu, 28 Dec 2017 02:10:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/get-to-know-twins-minor-league-catcher-mitchell-kranson-r6290/Now that the 2018 Minnesota Twins Prospect Handbook is complete (order paperback or e-book), it’s time to get to know or catch up with some of those prospects. Today, we get to know Mitchell Kranson. The Twins drafted the catcher from the University of California in Berkeley with their ninth-round...6290Wed, 27 Dec 2017 01:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/tenth-annual-minnesota-twins-prospect-handbook-now-available-r6286/Tenth Annual. It's hard for me to believe that I have now self-published ten Minnesota Twins Prospect handbooks. With the help of Cody Christie and Tom Froemming the 2018 Minnesota Twins Prospect handbook is now available. Below, maybe you'll find a way to place your order before then. You can now...6286Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/twins-minor-league-2018-coachingcoordinator-assignments-r6283/Derek Falvey was officially named the Minnesota Twins Chief Baseball Officer in early October of 2016. About a month later, he named Thad Levine as his General Manager. Rob Antony remained with the organization as the Assistant General Manager. While in most cases change was not immediate, change...6283Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:22:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/get-to-know-twins-outfield-prospect-jacob-pearson-r6273/When the Minnesota Twins found out that they were not going to get a meeting with Shohei Otani, they decided to trade some of their international bonus pool money to add talent to the organization. They traded $1 million to the Seattle Mariners for catcher David Banuelos. Moments later, it was ann...6273Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/twins-select-rhp-tyler-kinley-in-rule-5-draft-lose-burdi-to-phillies-bard-to-angels-r6270/See updates below...The Twins lost two players in the Major League portion of the Rule 5 draft and added a right-handed pitcher. In the minor league Rule 5, they added two players without losing anyone. On Thursday morning, the 2017 Winter Meetings will come to a close with the annual Rule 5 draf...6270Thu, 14 Dec 2017 04:29:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/twins-prospect-spotlight-series-ben-rortvedt-r6265/As a way to look back at a great minor league season and look ahead toward the release of the 2018 Twins Prospect Handbook, I’ll be writing a series of features on prospects I seem to be especially high on. Next to receive the spotlight treatment is catcher Ben Rortvedt. Ranking prospects is a di...6265Wed, 13 Dec 2017 01:19:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/reviewing-seth39s-preliminary-top-50-twins-prospect-rankings-r6257/Over the past month, I wrote up quick profiles for my preliminary Top 50 Twins Prospects rankings. It’s preliminary because over the last two months, I have been working on profiles, backgrounds and scouting reports for about 170 Twins minor leaguers for the soon-to-be-released 2018 Twins Prospect...6257Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:03:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/minor-leagues/twins-prospect-spotlight-series-lachlan-wells-r6252/As a way to look back at a great minor league season and look ahead toward the release of the 2018 Twins Prospect Handbook, I’ll be writing a series of features on prospects I am especially high on. Next to receive the spotlight treatment is left-handed starting pitcher Lachlan Wells. Ranking pro...6252Wed, 06 Dec 2017 01:36:00 +0000